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c/maintenancephase·submitted 9 months ago by u/fabio_kuipers

three years of regain threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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three years of regain threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Interval stretching changes the exposure profile: with a week-long half-life, moving to ten or twelve days lowers trough concentration more than it lowers average exposure.…

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u/taper_off_tabithaMOD478 points·9 months ago

Standing reminder that regain after stopping is a documented pharmacological outcome, and posts framing it as a moral failure get edited.

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u/cesar_oyelaran392 points·9 months ago·edited

Has appetite changed, or only the scale?

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u/aurel_mwangi312 points·9 months ago

Correction: that trial measured regain after withdrawal, not failure of the drug during treatment. Very different claim.

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u/ilias_nakamura313 points·9 months ago

That is a range, not a trend. Two weigh-ins 13 days apart cannot distinguish them.

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[removed]345 points·9 months ago

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u/fabio_kuipersOP252 points·9 months ago·edited

Correcting myself: 12 months at maintenance, not the figure I posted. I keep rounding it up.

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u/arne_ndiaye77 points·9 months ago

plan the maintenance phase before you need it

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u/elise_ramos-6 points·9 months ago

None of this is a taper plan. What dose holds for you is a question for somebody with your history in front of them.

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u/andres_dahlberg182 points·9 months ago

Agreed that a few kilos of drift is ordinary. Weight is not a fixed number even for people who have never taken anything.

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